Slate Stone

I love slate stone. My husband knows this, and also teases me for always calling it slate stone instead of just slate. He says "Is it also travertine STONE? And granite STONE? And marble STONE?" Ha Ha. Very funny. But anyway, he unfairly used this fact to draw me into a conversation about the bathroom. 

"You know," he says, "we could put slate STONE on the floor in the bathroom, then do a similar pattern on the backsplash." My mind immediately fantasizes about the wonderful earthy quality of slate, the natural imperfections in color and pattern, it's inherently organic....WAIT a minute. No! We are not spending money on the floor. It's like the children's book If You Give A Pig A Pancake. Once we do that then you'll want new cabinetry and I've been ignoring your talk about a new glass shower. I tell him it's not worth the investment in order to recoup the cost and I don't want to be displaced for goodness knows how long.

Because after the quote I got from a contractor (hey, I was distracted by the pretty stone remember?) he says he wants to do it himself. Oh goodness.